Basic Facts
What tissue connects skeletal muscle to bone?
What is a tendon?
What is the functional contractile unit of a skeletal muscle fiber?
What is the sacromere
During the sliding filament theory, what molecule binds to myosin to allow the cross-bridge to detach from actin?
What is ATP?
Which of the muscle tissue types is both striated and under voluntary nervous control?
What is skeletal muscle?
What are the different muscle fiber types?
What is Type 1A, 2A, 2X?
What is the main function of the muscular system?
What is enabling movement, maintain posture, and produce heat.
Which two primary protein filaments slide past each other during muscle contraction?
What is actin and myosin?
This is the physical action where muscle fibers shorten to create movement of force.
What is a contraction?
Name the three main types of muscle tissue in the human body.
What is skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle?
This type of fiber contracts quickly and provides short bursts of power, but it gets really tired fast?
What is a fast twitch (type 2 fiber)?
What is another name for a muscle cell?
What is a muscle fiber?
What is the name of the cell membrane of a striated muscle fiber?
What is the sarcolemma?
What muscle action is when the muscle shortens?
What is Concentric Muscle action?
This primary tissue type covers body surfaces, lines hollow organs and cavities, and forms glands?
What is epithelial tissue?
What is the Endomysium?
What is the connective tissue covering each muscle fiber
What does ADL stand for?
What is activities of daily life?
What is Cytoplasm?
What is the fluid inside of a cell that contain the parts of the cell.
Thick protein filament that features "heads" that pull on thin filaments.
What is myosin?
What type of tissue is responsible for binding, supporting, and protecting other structures?
What is connective tissue?
You can control these muscles on purpose, such as running and walking.
What are voluntary muscles?
What are the three Muscle Actions?
What is Concentric, Eccentric, and Isometric?
This specialized cells main function of nervous tissue is designed to conduct electrical impulses.
What is the neuron?
What are the three phases of the Stretch-Shortening Cycle?
What is Loading, Amortization, and Concentric phases?
What makes up skeletal muscle?
What is muscle, connective, nerve, and vascular?
Marathon runners typically have a much higher percentage of this specific type of muscle fiber in their legs.
What are slow-twitch fibers (Type 1)?